(12) United States Patent
`US 6,512,919 B2
`(10) Patent N0.:
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`Ogasawara Jan. 28, 2003 (45) Date of Patent:
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`U8006512919B2
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`(54) ELECTRONIC SHOPPING SYSTEM
`UTILIZING A PROGRAM DOWNLOADABLE
`WIRELESS VIDEOPHONE
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`(75)
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`Inventor: N obuo Ogasawara, San Diego, CA
`(Us)
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`(73) Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki (JP)
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`( * ) Notice:
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`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.
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`(21) Appl. N0.: 09/281,557
`(22) Filed:
`Mar. 30, 1999
`(65)
`Prior Publication Data
`US 2002/0065728 A1 May 30, 2002
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`Related US. Application Data
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`(63) Continuation-impart of application No. 09/211,308, filed on
`Dec. 14, 1998.
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`(51)
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`(52) US. Cl.
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`Int. Cl.7 .......................... H04Q 7/20; G06K 15/00;
`G06F 17/60; H04N 7/14
`....................... 455/422; 235/383; 235/385;
`186/61; 705/23; 455/403; 348/1401
`(58) Field of Search .............................. 705/23, 26, 16,
`705/17, 379/14; 455/303, 3.05, 403, 405,
`406, 409, 410, 411, 414, 418, 419, 422;
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`(56)
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`Primary Examiner—Richard Chileot
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`(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm$hristie, Parker & Hale,
`LLP
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`(57)
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`ABSTRACT
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`An electronic shopping system facilitates purchase transac—
`tions Via a Wireless videophone. A purchase transaction
`program is downloaded from the seller’s server to a pur-
`chaser’s wireless videophone via a program loader con—
`tained within the purchaser’s wireless videophone. The
`purchase transaction program is stored in a program memory
`and is used by the purchaser to facilitate the selection of
`items to be purchased, as well as payment therefor. An
`integral digital camera is attached to the wireless telephone
`to facilitate the selection of items to be purchased and is
`controlled Via the downloaded purchase transaction program
`to function as a bar code or product icon image capture
`device. Character or pattern recognition software translates
`the bar or icon code image into an appropriate item identi-
`fier.
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`ELECTRONIC SHOPPING SYSTEM
`UTILIZING A PROGRAM DOWNLOADABLE
`WIRELESS VIDEOPHONE
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`shopping from locations away from the home. For example,
`a purchaser may wish to order items from the workplace,
`over lunch in a restaurant, while traveling, and in a variety
`of other, different circumstances wherein the purchaser does
`5 not have access to his or her home television or computer.
`CROSS—REFERENCE TO RELATED
`It is also known to use a personal shopping system (PSS)
`APPLICATIONS
`wherein the purchaser carries ascanner embedded hand-held
`The present application is a continuation—in—part of
`terminal within a store. Bar codes of products to be pur-
`co-pending application Ser. No. 09/211,308, filed Dec. 14,
`chased are scanned with the hand—held scanner. Adisplay on
`1998 entitled ELECTRONIC SHOPPING-SYSTEM UT].
`LlZlNG A PROGRAM DOWNLOADABLE WIRELESS 10 the scanner embedded hand-held terminal displays an item
`TELEPHONE, commonly owned by the Assignee of the
`price and a running total 0f the purchase prices Of the
`present invention, the entire disclosure of which is expressly
`products WhiCh have been scanned. Payment for the scanned
`incorporated herein by reference.
`products is accomplished at a checkout counter in a con-
`ventional manner.
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`However, contemporary personal shopping systems
`FIELD OF THE INVENTION
`require the use Of a dedicated Personal Shopping system
`The present invention relates generally to electronic shop-
`terminal, WhiCh has a small display, a number keypad, and
`ping systems and, more particularly to an electronic shop—
`a built-in bar code scanner. Of course, the use Of such a
`ping system which utilizes aprogram downloadable wireless
`contemporary dedicated portable personal shopping system
`video phone as a purpose-type dedicated terminal which
`enables a shopper to capture, recognize and decode captured 20 requires a substantial financial investment by the retailer in
`images.
`the portable personal shopping system terminals.
`Wireless telephones, such as cellular telephones, are very
`popular. As the price of wireless telephones and the cost of
`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
`Electronic shopping systems for allowing a shopper to 7— making calls therewith continue to decrease, more people
`purchase products without necessarily having to travel to a “3 are purchasing and using wireless telephones,
`store are well known, One example Of a contemporary
`As used herein, the term wireless telephone is defined to
`electrOrliC ShOpping system is a cable television Shopping
`include mobile telephones, cellular telephones, satellite tele-
`channel, wherein products are advertised on television. A
`phones and any other telephones not requiring a wired
`shOpper merely watches the television and when an item is 30 connection, such as cordless home telephones which have a
`shown for WhiCh a purchase is desired, the shopper uses a
`limited range and must generally therefore be used close to
`telephone to call an agent of the seller to place an order for
`the house.
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`In view of the low cost and ubiquitous nature of wireless
`the desired Pmdth- Usually, a credit card number is given
`telephones, it is desirable to provide a system for performing
`over the telephone to facrlitate payment for the purchased
`item. The purchased product is then shipped dhCCtly to the 35 electronic shopping which utilizes a customer’s own Wire-
`buyer.
`less telephone for the selection of items to be purchased, as
`In an improved version of cable television shopping, an
`well as for providing payment for such purchased items. By
`interaCtiVe or bidirectional cable syStem allows the pur-
`utilizing the customer’s own wireless telephone for elec-
`chaser to make selections directly from the television screen.
`tronic shopping, rather than using a dedicated personal
`This may be accomplished by using a menu driven system 40 shopping system terminal, the substantial investment asso-
`controlled by the television remote control. In this manner,
`ciated with the use of such dedicated personal shopping
`the need to make a telephone call is avoided. The added
`system terminals is eliminated.
`convenience hf shopping directly from the television is
`l’urther, additional efficiencies can be realized if wireless
`expected to enhance consumer response to such advertise—
`telephones are provided with a graphic display, such as a
`merits.
`45 small color or monochrome LCD display and a visual image
`Similar to cable television shopping is the use of the
`capture device, such as a CCD digital camera,
`i.e.,
`is
`Internet to make desired purchases from the home. Many
`configured as a wireless videophone. In this particular case,
`companies presently offer their products for sale on the
`a wireless videophone is able to extend the capabilities of
`Internet, and the number doing so is increasing rapidly.
`electronic shipping by eliminating altogether the require-
`Products as diVerse as pizzas, books and automobiles can 50 ment for dedicated terminals to scan machine—readable code,
`readily be purchased from the comfort or a person’s home,
`as well as reduce a vendor’s investment in these dedicated
`simply by locating the web page Of a company selling the
`terminals. Wireless videophones would, thus, provide the
`desired item, selecting the item to be purchased, providing
`most cost effective way of accommodating an electronic
`an address to WhiCh the item is to be delivered, and provid-
`shopping system since a customer need only carry a single,
`ing a credit card number to pay for the purchased item.
`55 personalized commodity apparatus which serves multiple
`However, one disadvantage of such contemporary elec—
`functions, including electronic shopping, thus minimizing
`tronic shopping systems is that they require that the pro-
`the customer’s investment.
`spectivc purchaser subscribe to either cable television or to
`an Internet service, for which a subscription fee is charged.
`Further, such contemporary electronic shopping systems 60
`rcquirc that purchases be made from either the purchaser’s
`teleViSiOn or computer, bOth 0f WhiCh are typically located
`in the purchaser’s home and cannot usually be easily trans-
`ported. Thus,
`the purChascr is undesirably constrained to
`Sh0pping from the home.
`Because of the highly mobile nature of modern society, it
`is desirable to provide the ability to conduct electronic
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`SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
`The present invention specifically addresses and allevi—
`ates the above-mentioned deficiencies associated with the
`prior art. More particularly, the present invention comprises
`an electronic shopping system for facilitating purchase
`transactions via a wireless videophone to which a program
`65 download function, a downloaded program execution func-
`tion and an integral digital camera and display screen have
`been added. However, since the functionality added to the
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`wireless videophone is small, the wireless videophone is still
`capable of being produced as an inexpensive commodity
`product.
`The electronic shopping system comprises a server and at
`least one wireless videophone for communicating with the
`server. Thus, according to one preferred embodiment of the
`present invention, once a customer visits a store, the cus-
`tomer simply dials the number of the store’s personal
`shopping system service. The personal shopping system
`application is then automatically downloaded into the cus-
`tomer’s videophone. The downloaded program automati-
`cally begins execution and provides the desired functionality
`of a personal shopping system. An integral digital camera is
`used to scan the images of bar codes of purchased items, and
`pattern recognition software resident either in the video—
`phone or in the server, translates the bar code image data into
`an alpha-numeric product identification. Thus, the present
`invention allows retailers to implement a personal shopping
`system while minimizing the cost investment necessary to
`do so.
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`More particularly, according to the present invention a
`store maintains a server which provides a downloadable
`purchase transaction program to a purchaser’s wireless
`videophone when the purchaser calls the store’s server via
`the purchaser’s wireless videophone. After downloading the
`purchase transaction program from the server to the wireless
`videophone,
`the server communicates with the wireless
`videophone so as to use the downloaded purchase transac-
`tion program to facilitate selection of the desired product(s)
`for purchase, as well as to facilitate payment therefore.
`It is desirable to download the purchase transaction pro-
`gram into a wireless videophone as needed, rather than to
`permanently store the purchase transaction program in the
`wireless videophone, because downloading allows a plural-
`ity of different sellers to utilize their own programs, rather
`than requiring a single, universal program for all sellers. It
`should be appreciated that different sellers will desire to
`incorporate different messages, advertisements, menus, etc.
`into their own purchase transaction program and to further
`customize their own purchase transaction program so as to
`tailor it to the particular products being sold.
`Further, since different types of wireless videophones are
`contemplated to have different displays, keypads, camera
`and display types, etc., it is desirable to download a purchase
`transaction program which is specifically tailored to a par-
`ticular type of wireless videophone, so as to make the best
`use of that particular wireless Videophone’s features.
`The purchase transaction progam transmitted from the
`server to the wireless telephone is loaded into a program
`memory of the wireless videophone Via a program loader of
`the wireless videophone. The program loader effects loading
`of the purchase transaction program into the program
`memory as the purchase transaction program is being trans-
`mitted from the server to the wireless videophone. The
`downloaded purchase transaction program contains instruc-
`tions for facilitating product selection and payment Via the
`wireless videophone. Thus,
`the purchase transaction pro—
`gram converts the wireless videophone into a point of
`purchase electronic shopping terminal.
`Although the electronic shopping system of the present
`invention is described herein as being used to purchase
`products, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the
`electronic shopping system is likewise suitable for purchas-
`ing services, or anything else which is desired. Thus, use of
`the term “product” is by way of illustration only and not by
`way of limitation. Further, as used herein the term “store” is
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`defined to include any seller of goods or services, including
`a retail store, a wholesale store, or any other vendor.
`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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`These and other features, aspects and advantages of the
`present invention will be more fully understood when con-
`sidered with respect to the following detailed description,
`appended claims and accompanying drawings, wherein:
`FIG. 1 is a schematic overview of the electronic shopping
`system of the present invention,
`FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the wireless telephone
`and a server in further detail;
`FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the wireless
`telephone of the present invention;
`FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the wireless telephone 0f the
`present invention showing the interrelationship of the com-
`ponents of the present invention (shown with bold or heavy
`lines) with the components of a contemporary wireless
`telephone;
`FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing operation of the electronic
`shopping system of the present invention;
`FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the step of calling the
`server with the wireless telephone according to FIG. 5, in
`further detail;
`FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the step of downloading the
`program from the server into the wireless telephone accord-
`ing to FIG. 5, in further detail;
`FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the step of using the
`program to perform a purchase transaction according to FIG.
`5, in further detail;
`FIG. 9 is a customer information table;
`FIG. 10 is a block diagram depicting a wireless Video-
`phone embodiment of the electronic shopping system
`according to the invention,
`FIG. 11 is a functional block diagram of a wireless
`videophone according to the present invention;
`FIG. 12 is a block diagram of the wireless videophone of
`the present invention depicting the inner relationship of the
`components of the present invention (shown with bold or
`heavy lines) with the components of a contemporary wire-
`less telephone system,
`FIG. 13 is a flow chart depicting the steps associated with
`using a downloaded program to acquire and decode bar code
`information according to the invention; and
`FIG. 14 is a semi—schematic representation of a wireless
`videophone in accord with practice of principles of the
`invention.
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`DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE
`PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
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`The detailed description set forth below in connection
`with the appended drawings is intended as a description of
`the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, and is
`not intended to represent the only form in which the present
`invention may be constructed or utilized. The detailed
`description sets forth the construction and functions of the
`invention, as well as the sequence of steps for operating the
`invention in connection with the illustrated embodiment. It
`is to be understood, however, that the same or equivalent
`functions may be accomplished by different embodiments
`that are also intended to be encompassed within the spirit
`and scope of the invention.
`Referring now to FIG. 1, the present invention generally
`comprises a store server 10 in communication with a com-
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`mercial telephone network 14, typically via a wire connec—
`tion 12. Alternatively, the store server 10 may communicate
`with the commercial telephone network 14 via any other
`desired means, such as via fiber optics, radio signals, etc.
`Such commercial telephone networks are those commonly
`used to communicate voice and data both locally and over
`long distances. Example of such commercial
`telephone
`networks include Pacific Bell, General Telephone, AT&T,
`MCI and Sprint.
`The commercial telephone network 14 facilitates connec-
`tion of the store server 10 to a wireless telephone 18 via a
`cellular telephone network 17, to which the conventional
`telephone network 14 is in communication, typically via a
`wire connection 16. Examples of such cellular telephone
`networks include L.A. Cellular and Pacific Bell. Again, the
`wired connection 16 may alternatively comprise a fiber
`optic, radio or other means of communication.
`The cellular telephone network 17 communicates with the
`wireless telephone 18 via radio transmission according to
`well known principles.
`Alternatively, a remote server 26, rather than the store
`server 10, communicates with the wired telephone network
`14, again preferably via a wire connection 28. The wire
`connection 28 may alternatively comprise fiber optic, radio,
`or other communication means.
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`use of the cellular network 17 are avoided. Those skilled in
`the art will appreciate various other means of providing
`in-house radio communication between the wireless tele-
`phone 18 and the store server 10 are likewise suitable.
`In use, a purchaser merely dials the telephone number of
`the store server 10 or remote server 26 with the wireless
`telephone 18. Upon connection of the wireless telephone 18
`to the store server 10 or the remote server 26, the purchase
`transaction program is downloaded from the store server 10
`or the remote server 26 into the wireless telephone 18 under
`the direction of a program loader 32 (FIG, 2).
`More particularly,
`the telephone interface of the store
`server 10 or remote server 26 facilitates receipt of the
`telephone call from the customer and downloading of the
`appropriate purchase transaction program to the wireless
`telephone 18. The server personal shopping application
`facilitates sending and receiving of information between the
`customer’s wireless telephone 18 and the store server 10 or
`remote server 26. When the store server 10 or remote server
`26 is called by the customer’s wireless telephone 18, then
`the telephone interface obtains the customer’s phone number
`and then searches the customer information database in the
`store server 10 or remote server 26 in order to obtain the
`following information: customer’s telephone number, down-
`load program ID, customer ID, and customer name. This
`information is preferably stored in the store server 10 or
`Optionally, the store server 10 is in communication with
`remote server 26 when the customer enrolls in the personal
`an extension PBX 24 or the like, preferably via a wired
`connection 11. The extension PBX 24 communicates with
`shopping application. In this manner, the customer’s tele-
`phone number provides a degree of validation, and thus
`the wireless telephone 18 via a radio connection.
`serves to indicate that the customer is authorized to make
`Optionally, an external bar code scanner 20 communi-
`pureh ases.
`cates with the wireless telephone 18 via wire connection 19.
`Based upon the download program ID, the appropriate
`Alternatively, the bar code scanner 20 communicates with
`download program is downloaded from the store server 10
`the wireless telephone 18 Via infrared, laser, radio, or any
`other desired means.
`or remote server 26 to the wireless telephone 18. The
`particular purchase transaction program (which has a unique
`Alternatively, a built—in bar code scanner 25 and/or a
`ID) which is transmitted from the store server 10 or remote
`built-in IC card reader/writer 27 are formed integrally with
`server 26 to the wireless telephone 18 is selected so as to be
`the wireless telephone 18. In a store,
`a bar code on a
`consistent with the purchaser’s profile, e.g., telephone type,
`purchased item 33 is scanned by bar code scanner 20
`as well as the purchaser’s personal preferences, such as
`attached to a wireless telephone 18.
`language and particular interests.
`Acatalog 21 of the items which can be purchased contains
`The store server 10 or remote server 26 personal shopping
`a bar code 22 for each such item, and preferably also
`application facilitates purchase transactions. Each message
`contains descriptive text 13 and a picture 15 of each item.
`coming from a wireless telephone 18 is associated with the
`The use of such a catalog 21 or the like facilitates the
`customer’s telephone number,
`the customer ID, or some
`purchasing of products via the electronic shopping system of
`other unique identification. When the store server 10 or
`the present invention when the purchaser is not in the store
`remote server 26 receives bar code data from the customer’s
`where the items are sold. Typically, each item 33 also has a
`wireless telephone 18, then the store server 10 or remote
`bar code 31 applied thereto.
`server 26 searches a database and obtains a description and
`The store server 10, as well as any remote server 26, if
`used, stores the purchase transaction program which is to be 50 price for the item SCfithd- The item description and price is
`downloaded into the wireless telephone 18 when a call is
`then transmitted to the customer’s wireless telephone 18 and
`made from the wireless telephone 18 to the store server 10
`is preferably displayed “P011 £115 display 42 thereof. All Of
`or the remote server 26. The store server 10 and the remote
`the data received from the customer’s wireless telephone 18,
`server 26 also contain a program, i.e., the server personal
`including data regarding returned items (those WhiCh the
`shopping application (FIG. 2), which cooperates with the 55 customer has dec1ded not to purchase) are kept by the store
`purchase transaction program downloaded [0 the wireless
`server 10 or remote server 26 so as to facilitate a subsequent
`telephone 18 to effect purchase transactions, including the
`payment procedure.
`selection of items to be purchased and payment therefore, as
`Optionally, the store server 10 or remote server 26 also
`discussed in detail below.
`sends other information to the customer’s wireless telephone
`When the wireless telephone 18 is used within or close to 60 18~ ShCh other information may comprise promotional
`the store where the store server is located, then the optional
`information, discount information, a personal, etc.
`extension PBX 24 may be utili7ed to facilitate radio com-
`After being downloaded,
`the purchase transaction pro-
`munication between the store server 10 and the wireless
`gram optionally requests that the purchaser enter a pass—
`telephone 18, thereby eliminating the need for the cellular
`word. The use of such a password provides further valida-
`telephone network 17. By using an extension PBX 24, 65 tion of the customer. The use of such a password is
`reliable communication between the store server 10 and the
`particularly useful in preventing the use of a stolen wireless
`wireless telephone 18 is assured and costs associated with
`telephone 18 in the performance of unauthorized purchase
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